These youth knifed the shopkeeper in the side of his face and smashed a bottle over another worker’s head in the shocking attack at a store in Paddington.
Police said the 44-year-old salesman was lucky to be alive after the terrifying assault, at Station Food and Wine on Edgware Road in the early afternoon on July 7.
CCTV footage shows three youths walking into the shop. Police said they asked to buy drinks and cigarettes.